Wooden statuette
- Museum number:
- 5-15190
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050015190
- Accession number:
- Acc.4386
- Description:
- Slit-gong. Anthropomorphic, hand carved brown wood; fabric strips through ear lobes. Used by diviner to announce his entrance into a village. Height 37 cm.
- Donor:
- Dan Stuhlmueller
- Collection place:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Central Africa; Zaire; Yaka
- Culture or time period:
- Ba Yaka
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- January 9, 1989
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Loans:
- S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995)
- Images:
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